Second, the storm that strafed the East Coast days before the election ought to remind every American to ask: What happened to the $800 billion-plus in stimulus funds? (And I’d note that, at Cato, Thomas Firey puts it at more like $2.5 trillion – and itemizes.) I do not subscribe to the Keynesian conceit that a dollar of government spending results in a dollar-plus of positive economic activity in the private sector, but if you’re going to do it, the constitutional concept of “general welfare” demands no less than that taxpayer money be spent only in a manner that benefits all Americans. (As I’ve argued before, I believe it may only be spent for the purposes enumerated in Article I, but put that aside for now.) Where are the improvements in our infrastructure? Where are the billions that could have been spent on improvements that might have left a region less paralyzed by a weather-related disaster?

In stark contrast, Obama took over $800 billion from us and shoveled it to his base, his cronies, the illusion of “green energy,” and state and municipal governments nearly as poorly run as the federal Leviathan. He has robbed Americans of millions of jobs, present growth, and future prosperity. This is larceny on an unprecedented scale, and we have nothing to show for it but mountainous, exploding debt – debt that will crush our children and their children … if we get that far. It is a profound betrayal of the intergenerational bond that is the foundation of our society.

These two things alone, Benghazi and a death-spiral of spending under the camouflage of “stimulus,” are more than reason enough to deny President Obama a second term. He must be defeated – and then we must, rather than resting, turn to the important task of minimizing the damage he can done before President Romney is sworn-in eleven weeks from now.

Under the mandated policies of the Obama “administration”, you are hereby ordered to “share your fortunate circumstance” with all fellow New Yorkers. The IRS, Michael Bloomberg, and DOJ will verify your compliance.

Those who still believe the Radical-in-Chief can protect them from all ills are hallucinating, unless he gives them free passes to ‘share’ in his wealth, if things go awry. Ditto for Bloomberg, bastard that he is.IF they think hurricane Sandy is a problem, they will reel from Obamacare, when fully implemented.

In fact, not only can’t he protect them, but he can kill them, especially if they work in his service under big gov’t.

Border Patrol got caught in Fast & Furious (and many others), SEALS and a Diplo too. And this was not a natural disaster. It was a disaster of his own making!

So, whether or not the Pyromaniac-in-Chief wins re-election, he must be prosecuted or impeached. Either way, he and his willing help mates must face the full wrath of the Congress, the people, the courts, and most especially, that of the families of those he watched die!

Ever since the GM/delphi bailout, Obamacare, fast and furious, and now Libya, you know something in there went to the president, and the way he is he did something illegal. I would have been working on something before the election, so that if he wins, on day one you can impeach him.

As much as it disappoints me, I’ve been persuaded by commenters here and there that prosecuting the Won himself would be a mistake. However, the Romney admin could prosecute everyone else, right up to the cabinet level, and let them throw Obama under the bus. Obama would be a curse-word in the Democrat party forever and all time, and the ugly Dems would be gone for generations.

As for how we get Clinton, Holder, Panetta, Petraeus, and Napolitano to testify, just let it be known that leakers have produced a few smoking guns that could be used as evidence in perjury trials.

I can accept the argument that misuse of the stimulus money and subsequent disaster in NY/NJ could be considered grounds for impeachment. But in my opinion, the Benghazi situation is nothing less than treason if there was a deliberate stand down order.

Two nights ago, the riveting “Judgment at Nuremberg” was shown on American Movie Classics. I couldn’t help but think of the families of those brave Americans who lost their lives in Benghazi, when Spencer Tracy delivered these lines:

“A country isn’t a rock. And it isn’t an extension of one’s self. It’s what it stands for, when standing for something is the most difficult! Before the people of the world—-let it now be noted in our decision here that this is what *we* (emphasis in the original) stand for: justice, truth… and the value of a single human being!”

Let’s hope that as of tomorrow, we make it unequivocally clear to the entire world that the majority of Americans still believe this.

1. Helped to pile Trillions of Dollars to the Nat’l Debt.
2. Gutted NASA manned space flights
3. Gutting the military
4. Obama Phones, undoing work requirement for welfare
5. Months and months of unemployment benefits
6. Bailed out the UAW – not GM per se; stiffed bond holders; salaried workers’ pension; shut down dealers that were Republicans
7. Unilaterally allowed illegal aliens the right to stay in the U.S. hold jobs that Americans need themselves
8. Spiralling of Food Stamps
9. Spirally of disability benefits
10. Rules of Engagement in Afcrapistan that are getting our people killed; not to mention being shot in the back by our “ally”
11. Made recess appointments when Senate was not in recess
12. Has his boot on coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear and hydro energy. See the people freezing on the East Coast? That’s the future under O’Dismal.
13. Almost doubling of gasoline prices
14. Stiffed our allies, especially Israel; loves our enemies.
15. Total disaster in the Middle East & N.A. booting out allies and replacing them with Muslim Brotherhood
15. Left Ambassador and three others to die while they watched on video
16. Illegal war in Libya
17. Obamacare gutted Medicare Advantage; funnels money to others; IPAB death panel; sprialling health insurance premiums
18. Regulations out the wazoo stiffling business and burying us under rules from Washington
19. Subpar job creation; umemployment averaged around 8%
20. Killed the Keystone pipeline
21. Has lots of Muslim Brotherhood types in the administration with Huma Abedin as Hillary’s closest advisor. How’s that working out for ambassador Stevens? Oh, he’s dead, so not so well.

Hopefully, my keyboard/computer or whatever does not type double words or post double entries – Moving on, excellent post Patty. I am thinking that the voter turnout this election is going to be very high. Last election we had McCain, aka McMoron and a lot of independents and republicans just threw their arms up in despair and said the “the Hell with it”. I guess we got what we deserved , Hell with big ears. Not so this year, MSM and your phony polls – Romney wins big! The silent majority is pissed!

1. Every fifth man in America is out of a job. Black male unemployment is now at the highest rate it has ever been since the U.S. government began collecting statistics on the subject in 1972. Just 56.9 percent of black men over the age of 20 are now working.

2. Every seventh person you pass on the sidewalk now relies on food stamps, a figure that represents 46.7 million Americans.

3. On the last day of President George W. Bush’s presidency, gas prices were $1.84 a gallon. Today under President Barack Obama, the average price of a gallon of gas costs $3.56.

4. In 2006 and 2007, 90% of all college graduates found a job. Under Obama, just 56% of college graduates are able to find a job.

5. More than one in four U.S. homeowners are “under water” or owe more than their homes are worth. The housing crisis has destroyed $7 trillion in U.S. household wealth. Another 9.5 million homes are still at risk of default.

6. President Obama has increased the national debt more in three years than George W. Bush did in eight. Under Bush, the debt rose $4.899 trillion in eight years. In three years, the debt has increased by $4.939 trillion under Obama.

7. 27 percent of black Americans now live in poverty, a two percent increase since 2009.
8. According to the recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report, the unemployment rate for black Americans now stands at a staggering 14.3 percent, a figure well above the already high national unemployment rate of 7.9 percent.

I’m saying the armed forces are neither a SWAT team nor are they the fire department. They can’t react in a moment’s notice, and realistically they can’t be deployed to every spot on the planet everytime an American life is in danger. Sorry to have to drag your Obama Derangement back to reality.

Walter, you *do* know that frequently the mentally ill and schizophrenics will insist that there’s nothing wrong with their mental functioning, that their perception *is* the reality, and that everyone else is wrong. If you look around yourself and see that everyone else thinks one thing — Obama is a criminal and needs to be prosecuted — and you are the only one who thinks he’s not, then perhaps you need to make a doctor’s appointment and get yourself into a a third party to (re)define what your reality really is.

“I’m saying the armed forces are neither a SWAT team nor are they the fire department. They can’t react in a moment’s notice…”

It’s been 55 days since the attack and still NO action by the United States military.

Compare and contrast with the Traitor-in-Chief’s use of American military forces last year to help Muslim rebels seize control of Libya (which was flagrant violation of the Supreme law of the Land, btw).

Obama will order the United States military into action to help Muslim rebels, he will not do so, if those Muslim rebels attack the United States and kill American citizens.

When everything is an impeachable offense, nothing is. The “Impeach!” drumbeat has gone so far into the-boy-who-cried-wolf territory at this point, that it is an instant turn-off for anyone other than the true believers.

The racism isn’t even subtle anymore. Not to mention the cowardice of attacking someon’s wife anonymously from a computer. These are the bad guys. They’ve always been the bad guys. History won’t forget.

It seems to me that when Mrs. Obama is using tax-payer funds to jet around the world vacationing and campaigning, to buy herself designer duds, and to throw lots of million dollar dinners, then she is using *our* money for *her* welfare, which ipso facto makes her a Welfare Queen.

She surrendered her law license as did her husband. Why? Don’t know for sure but this was easily verifiable, but not since it was scrubbed from the archive…you clearly don’t know how to navigate in the Information age. Educating an idiot on how to find public record information is not on my to do list.

There is so much hostility in these comments! All my friends love Pres. Obama. I myself do not follow current events, but I have many brilliant friends, some of which went to Harvard or Yale! They all say that Pres. Obama is one of the best Presidents ever, a new Lincoln or FDR, who rescued America from the terrible policies of George W. Bush. What a wonderful thing it is that we have avoided yet another war in Libya, thanks to Pres. Obama’s courageous leadership. It is sad that four people died, but this may be a small price to pay for saving thousands of lives that could have been expended if we had “led from the front” in Libya. Thank Goodness we led from behind, a brilliant example of statesmanship. President Obama symbolizes all that is good and great in America. Green energy, green politics, and green vegetables are the essence of wise statecraft in the 21st Century. President Obama is the first American leader with the insight and courage to protect the purity of our bodily fluids.

My heck did you forget your sarc tag? He came from haaaavad and so do you expect them to criticize their guy? Green jobs, means putting in a toilet that has to be flushed 3 times. He has spent 90 Billion on green jobs & the list who went bankrupt is legion. Especially when you understand his bundlers stepped in front of the tax payers to receive any $ from the bankruptcies.
0bama was in situation room (or was he) when all of this was going down in real time! Gee too bad, as you said. I guess your glad it’s not your son. They were asking for help and it should’ve been on the way, instead they were left for 7 hours to try and save 30 people & themselves. Unfortunately they were slaughtered just as Stevens was. BTW our ambassador asked for additional help in August and was denied and the regular security was pulled out!
Do you know that 0bama has troops in 72 countries and this is just leaking out.
Military ballots are NOT getting to the military.
You said you don’t keep up on current events, well, just maybe you shouldn’t vote! If you have no idea about what is going on & what has happened.
He has tarnished the office of the Pres by his foul & vulgar language and the friends he keeps and has preform in the white house.
He looks tired and grumpy and hoarse and mean “revenge”.
Romney looks energized and upbeat “vote because you love this country!”
His right hand gal (valerie) says they will remember who didn’t support him & they will take revenge on them.
A great president? No, a street hustler!

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If the most polarizing president in U.S. history,(sans Lincoln) wins then “snarky” becomes the most winning political attitude. The march to Europeanization as a cradle to grave socialist-democratic nation, indebted beyond repair becomes complete. Stagnation in the economy and the congress becomes assured. Redistribution means the few will serve the many who will be perpetually entitled. Omission and obfuscation will be the common byproduct of the “free press.”

There is only a single course of action to right this wrong and excrete obama from the presidency. Keep remembering that Obama was elected by only 30% of registered voters. There was a 58% turnout and of the people who actually voted, 52% voted for Obama. Multiply 0.58 and 0.52 and you get 0.30. Just 30% of registered voters saddled us with Obama. Forget about the polls and just vote.

There are no scandals in the Obama administration. Even the Benghazi fiascp has been reduced to a two word explanation. Just listen to Juan w
Williams on FoxNews. There is no proof of anything its all partisan politics. There is no free press. The President gets a pass from the media aon every issue. Putin and Erdogan must be in absolute awe at the power of Obamas control of the press without having to execute or imprison a single jounalist.

I think everyone is going to get a presidential pardon and surf out the door, fast and furious. I think the president will pardon himself on his last day in office, after he pardons the folks in Gitmo, all those folks doing disproportionate federal time for crack cocaine, and all those folks in the country illegally. Just think of it as executive spending cuts during a lame duck presidency. And then the candy man will be off to that fifteen million dollar estate in Hawaii and a well deserved retirement among the pineapples and sugar cane. Cowabunga dude!

Obama will lose. But the aftermath could be pretty horrifying, too–but not as much as a win. This narcissistic megalomaniac will take his rage out on the country and the true evil that is Barack Obama will out–not that it hasn’t already.

I hope the prospect of O’s scorched Earth unsettles enough dems to go to the sociopath and council him; but turning against him wouldn’t be an option. Demo’s political futures be on the line, not to mention the long term fortunes of their party.

The truly sad thing is that, after the usual hard-wired ‘reasons’ people have for voting dem, tens of millions actually believe O has been a good president.

I don’t claim to be a brilliant man. Far from it. But my years on this hard planet of ours has taught me a few things. They have taught me the value of loyalty, of integrity, of honesty, and of character. The disaster in Benghazi has shown me that our current president has none of those qualities. What do you call a man who values his job over the lives of his fellow Americans? I can tell you what you cannot call him, and that’s president of the United States.

I think back on some of the presidents that have had who made some incredible decisions in their lifetime, whether they were in OR out of office. I think back on Eisenhower who met with paratroopers the day before D-Day, knowing that they would sustain roughly 70% casualties in the drop on Normandy. He felt so bad about it, he almost couldn’t bear to look them in the eyes (and, if you look at the photographs of that moment, you see that Ike isn’t directly looking at anyone in his eyes). But he knew how important their job was and he still sent them, many of them to their deaths. And he never forgot their sacrifice.

I think of U.S. Grant fighting some of the worst battles ever fought on our soil, and the sadness that you always saw in his eyes, but they had to be fought if this nation was to survive. Or men like Lincoln or Reagan, each faced with their own challenges, but having to face them with honor, dignity, and a lot of human decency.

And then there is the man himself, George Washington, who was fighting for an idea, a vision, that common men could achieve uncommon greatness through courage, discipline, and an unyielding faith in the potential of the American people.

I think of all these things and all these fine men and have to believe that no president, whichever the party, would abandon fellow Americans in their desperate time of need, when their backs were literally up against the walls and their cries for help had to be answered immediately or else they would face a horrific death. But it is looking as if that is what happened in Benghazi when, after repeated cries for help, our own government turned our backs on them because it was the politically epedient thing to do. I don’t want to believe that, and yet that is what the evidence is showing us right now.

We live in dangerous times and we cannot afford to have a president that doesn’t place the lives of fellow Americans above his own interests. Say what you will about John Kennedy, but after he was faced with the Bay of Pigs disaster he took responsibility for it. He uttered his famous line, “Success has many fathers but failure is an orphan.” Kennedy was forced to adopt that orphan and that showed character as well as courage. Unfortunately, we see none of that in Obama. He’s a rank political operator, more in love with the idea of being president rather than appreciating the heavy responsibilities that go with it.

And THAT is why he will lose this election. Forget about the economy, forget about the debt and the deficit, forget about the “stimulus” that stimulated nothing but more debt, forget about the auto bailouts, forget about the failed energy policies, forget about all of that. But remember those four men in Benghazi who needed our help and were let down so badly by our government. And remember your father or son, brother or uncle, who may be stuck on some lousy hill in Afghanistan with no clear mission and no vision of what victory looks like. And certainly remember all those men and women who gave their last full measure of devotion in a crummy country named Iraq, a “nation” that is on the brink of collapse, risking all of the blood and treasure that we invested in it. Remember all of that on Election Day and vote for Mitt Romney. It’s the one concrete thing we can do for this country and, trust me, it’s an important one. Make it happen, America.

Both GW & Obama should take the blame for the wars. Obama & Al Gore should be prosecuted under the RICO Act for racketeering, for one initiated the carbon racket, and the other is promoting it. GW should be prosecuted if he was lying abut Iraq’s WMD and the inquiries need to begin.

It is time to begin to go after the top Executives of the News Networks.

Sumner M. Redstone serves as Chairman of the Board of both CBS Corporation and Viacom, roles he assumed after the separation of Viacom into two publicly traded companies, which occurred in January 2006. Mr. Redstone is the controlling shareholder of both companies.

Obama has proven that he knows how to read a teleprompter and make excuses.Romney has proven that he understands business,and knows how to create jobs by saving the olympig games and the state of Mass. from huge financial problems.

Good article!. I can’t abide Obama. He keeps blaming GW for the financial meltdown. The facts are that both Republicans, Democrats, Bankers, and Investment firms were complicit in what happened. Obama, in particular, is not blameless as he was in Congress prior to the meltdown. Furthermore, as an attorney, he won a case that prompted bankers to loosen credit restrictions for poorer, potential homeowners.

My biggest fear is that he will try to push through a law that will be in compliance with U.N. Resolution 16/18 which would criminalize so called hate speech, particularly when it results in violance. The Islamists are pushing for such a law. Should he be successful and should the Supreme Court uphold such a law, then Obama and all the Supreme Court Justices who supported the law should be impeached immediately. All of these people have sworn an oath to defend and protect the U.S. Constitution. Such a law would be clearly in violation of the First Amendment. If Obama is re-elected, all of us who believe in our First Amendment rights must make it clear to him and any of his appointees that we will not stand for any tampering with those rights.

Looking at the Cato list of the various stimulus acts over the past few years, a lot of what I see are tax cuts, breaks, and extensions of tax cuts. So, I guess tax cuts aren’t effective in job creation, or is it just tax breaks for the upper incomes that’s effective? Please enlighten me.